Re: Lilypond Right to Left

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Patrick McCarty wrote:

> I was unable to get the suggested font working correctly, but your
> feature request is now on the issue tracker:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=937
>
> Sorry for the delay.  If you have any further examples to contribute,
> I would be happy to add them to the tracker.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>   


Hi Patrick:

Many thanks for posting this for me. I'm sending a sample file for you 
(aboun.tex). If you have TeXLive 2009 it works (probably older versions 
too --- Polyglossia will give a warning that there's no hyphenation for 
Syriac, which you can ignore). The only things you'll need are: 1) to 
set the Syriac text: the Melthofont called "Serto Jerusalem"; and 2) any 
free font (I used Junicode) that supports certain diacritics (the only 
diacritic I've used for the transliteration is an h with an underscore).

Now, to typeset aboun.tex, just run:

lilypond-book --output=out --pdf aboun.tex

then,

cd out

then,

xelatex aboun.tex

and you should get the correct result, which will produce one page of 
transliterated Syriac with literal translation on page one, and page 2 
with the Syriac alone. The request, of course, is to make the music and 
lyrics run right to left for the Syriac.



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